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Three new books examine the history of African Americans in baseball. Negro League Baseball by Neil Lanctot documents how Major League owners underpaid black franchises for star players. Hank Aaron and the Home Run That Changed America by Tom Stanton details Aaron's trials on the road to 715, while The Ticket Out by Michael Sokolove shows that slugger Darryl Strawberry wasn't the only member of his high school team to fall victim to drugs and despair...
...LANCTOT: I purposely try not toconsciously copy anything. Any musical idea youcome up with is most likely from something youheard somewhere before. Unless you consciously sayOK, I'm going to take that baseline from that songbecause I know its cool, when at least you knowwhere it came from, you may write a song and haveit all together, only to realize years later that,Oh my God, the chorus sounds just like a Styx songI heard when I was in high school! And then you'reruined. But I try not to do that. I don't usefactory sounds that come with...
...LANCTOT: Things that had acharacteristic sound to it, like an analog drummodule, might have some characteristic sound. Nowwe've got more instruments, and the samplinginstruments are more the sampling, flat sound,true reproductions of sound. So hopefully, youdon't hear the instrument; you just hear thesound...
...LANCTOT: It's like, where, 10 years,would you put hummos in a food store? It's not,like, in the diary section or in the vegetablesection. Where are you going...
...LANCTOT:I think it's like that--we'realternative, but they always box us in with thecheese --and most of our fine brothers and sistersare cheese. But its' our quest to stay in thehummos section